HOPS ON. There was never a day so misty and gray That the blue was not somewhere above lt There U never a mountain top ever so bleak. That some lltUe flower does not love tt. i 0. There was never a nlirht so dreary and dark That the stars were not somewhere shining; There to never a oloud' so heavy and black ' That It has not a silvery lining;. There Is never a waiting time, weary and long, That will not some time have an ending; The most beautiful part of the landscape It where The sunshine and shadows are blending. Into every life some shadows will rail. But heaven sends the sunshine of love: Through the rifts In tho clouds w may, tf we will, See the beautiful blue above. Then let us hope on though the way be long And the darkness be gathering last; For the turn In the road is a little way on Where the home lights will greet us at last. FRED DENNARD'S LESSON By Helen "What nonsense, Fred. I wouldn't tdvo two cents for a man who had no Jealousy In his make-up." Miss Lue Dennard's rose-leaf lip curled scornfully, and her tiny, slip pered foot tapped tho velvet carpet iwlth energetic significance. "Jealousy Is not at all necessary to the perfect composition of man," re sponded Fred, with an air of supreme nnanswerableness. ,,"Then I shouldn't want him perfect," Mjss Lue said, disdainfully. "I should have no confidence In the affection of a man incapable of being jealous. It's not possible." "Humph! I fancy you won't find Jnany happier couples than Fay and 1, and I was never jealous of her, the darling, In my life, though I dare say She has been of me. I was rather a flirt In my day, you know," and Fred threw up his graceful head with an air of complacence that made his sis ter's lip curl again. "I always thought Fay was too de rived by half. She never had eyes for any one but you. I Imagine you would have liked her all the better If he had caused you a twinge or so under the left rib." "I don't think she could," Fred said, positively. "I either believe in a wo man, or I don't believe In her. None of your half and half for me." Lue laugfaed Incredulously, and re lumed her watch of the passersby through the plate-glass window. Sud denly her roguish dark eyes began to twinkle as she looked, and with a malicious glance at her brother, who was knitting his handsome brows over Review article, she tripped out of the room, and upstairs to her sister-hi-law, a blond little creature, with a sensitive, daisy face, and timid, loving yes. , "Oh, Fay, dear," cried Miss Lue, hy pocritically digging at her eyes with cobwebby handkerchief, and speak ing in the most doleful of tones, "won't yon do something for me? There's Ramsay's boy coming with a package, and you know how Fred hates Ramsay. Won't you go down and get the package for me, and don't let Fred know it's for me, not for the world." Fay looked uncomfortable, but it (wasn't In her line to say no, so she allowed herself to he started down stairs under tlhe guidance of Lue's urg ing hand. Ramsay's boy was just coming Into the hall, and she hurried on to inter cept him; but the servant, a fresh Importation, before she could do so, had already shown him into the room where Fred was lounging over his Re View. As Fay tripped overthe threshold, looking miserably self-conscious, Fred chanced to lift his eyes and saw her. Poor Fay made a desperate snatch at the boy's package, saying in a fran tio whisper, which It did not require a very long pair of ears to catch the Im port of-. "You can tell Mr. Ramsay you saw me, and it's all right." And then, hurrying the parcel Into her pocket, and the boy out into the hall, beyond Fred's possible question tng, she escaped to her chamber again, and delivered her prize to Miss Lue, iwho, halfway down the stairs, had witnessed the whole performance through the swinging door, and only retreated in time to escape being een. "Well, upon my word," exclaimed Fred Dennard, as this surprising tab leau vanished from his view, and by waf of venting his surprise he tore up ' stairs after Fay. ' "Really, Fay," he began, as he en ured his wife's boudoir, and stopped Upon seeing his sister. "Don't mind me, Fred," Lue 6aid, aoolly. "I always suspected that you and Fay had your seasons of doing something besides coo a la turtle dove." "Don't be a aimpleton, Lue," Fred Buttered, and threw himself into the window-seat in a huff, furtively watch ing his wife therefrom, and wonder ing angrily at her still flushed cheeks. "Didn't you know Ned Ramsay be tore you were married, Fay?" Lue asked, presently, in most Innocent fashion. She knew very well that if her broth. r Fred had been jealous it had been f Ned Ramsay, who was half an Irion taller than he , (Fred prided himself on his height) and was generally con Iddered a magnificent-looking man. . . Fay murmured something In re sponse, and shook her head at Lus with with a distressed look that did sot escape her husband, i 1 - "What nonsense, Fay," he interject ed, fretfully, "of course you knew Ramsay." Corwin Pierce, "I snid so, dear," meekly responded Fay. "Used to be a great flirt, didn't he? Splendid-looking fellow. All the girls are raving about him since he came back from South America," She rose as she said this, and saun tered out of the room, with a warning glance at Fay, to which Fay respond ed by getting redder roses than ever In her dimpled cheeks. Fred looked out of the window and whistled ostentatiously, but as soon as Lue was fairly out of the room he turned to his wife. "When did you see Ramsay?" "I haven't seen him since we were married, Fred," Fay said, with a de gree of earnestness that made her husband frown again. He was not quite in the humor to remark Just then upon the oddity of her receiving parcels and sending mes sages to a man she had not seen for three years, but he gnawed his mus tache over and thought till lunch time, and by a certain lordly air toward poor little Fay made her not only feel like a culprit, but act like one. The matter blew over for tlhat time, though Fred did not forget it. The more sensitive he was about Ned Ram say, the more unwilling he was to own to the same, and, rather to Fay's sur prise, he did not question her concern ing the parcel, though he was in agony, so to speak, to know all about it. "Fred," said Lue, a morning or two after, "why didn't you tell me Mr. Ramsey was coming last evening? I might have made an Impression, now that Fay is beyond his reach." "Mr. Ramsay was not here last even ing," exclaimed Fred, sharply. "You know very well I was not at home my self. I walked with you as far as Du forge's and spent the evening down town. Of course Ramsay wasn't here or Fay would ihave spoken of It." He remembered that his wife had seemed rather earnest about staying at home, though he had wished her to. accompany him to hear a favorite singer. "I don't know about that," Lue said, with a mischievous glance at his thoughtful countenance, "but I do know that I saw him descend the steps from our door last evening a little after ten." "You broke up early at Mrs. Du orge's," was Fred's only remark, but his face darkened: He had not come home himself till eleven. He sat in a nettle of Impa tience till Lue left the room, and THE ONE MOVE This incident is told of Morphy, the renowned chess player: See ing a picture of a youth playing chess with Satan and doomed, to i3 all appearance, to inevitable defeat, Morphy procured board and chess men and with one move changed what was thought to be certain failure into positive triumph. Does your problem look impossible? Does failure seem to your discouraged vision Inevitable? There Is One behind this game of life that keepeth watch and ward above his own, and by a single move on the board can bring to you glorious winnings. Shall we not confidently believe In both his skill and his willingness? Mrs. D. L. Williams. then he went upstairs, three steps at a time, and burst in upon his wife in a startling manner. "Why didn't you tell me Mr. Ramsay was here last evening?" he demanded, excitedly. "Because .he was not," Fay said, boldly, but blushing like the sensitive thing she was, partly at the name, perhaps for the sake of old times, and partly at Fred's strange ve hemence. "I was not well last even ing. Don't you remember I told you I went to bed by eight o'clock? If Mr. Ramsay called, I did not see him." The clear, soft eyes, the truth-telling voice, Fred Dennard did not doubt them for an Instant. "Lue was mistaken," he said to him self. But on the way out an hour after he asked the hoy who generally an swered the door. "Who let Mr. Ramsay in last night, Jim you?" , "Yes, sir," answered the boy; and Fred shot past him Into the street, muttering: "So he was here, after all! I should like deuoed well to know what it all means." On the way home In the afteraoon he overtook the carrier at his door almost, and took hla letters from him. There was one for his sister, and one' for Mrs. Fred Dennard, di rected In a bold, handsome chlro graphy that Fred remembered on oome old notes of Fay's, and the mono gram on the Up of the envelope was "B. R." lie went In and tossed the letters respectively into his wife's and sis ter's laps as they sat, one at soma needlework and the other reading. Fay's daisy face became a carnation as she glanced at hers, hut she did not offer to read it "Why don't you read your letter." Fred questioned, tartly, of his wife. "It's It's nothing of of Importance, I guess, and I'm busy," stammered Fay, with the oddest incoherence. "Then I suppose you won't object to my reading it to you?" suggested her husband, reaching for the letter. Fay caught it eagerly from his hand, and hid it in her pocket. "I always like to read my letters first myself," she said, with a little embarassed laugh ; and Fred, catching the glimmer of a most provoking smile in his 6lster's eyes, dropped the sub ject with an assumption of indiffer ence he was far from really feeling. The first moment he got his wife alone he said: "I was not aware you corresponded with Mr. Ra.msay, Fay." "I don't," Fay replied, bluntly. "The letter I gave you this afternoon was from him." The same distressed embarrass ment that had so often clouded his wife's lovely face came into It now as she, stammering as usual, said: "I don't correspond with Mr. Ram say, Fred; do believe me." "You don't correspond with him, but you get letters from him. Humph! thnt's a distinction without a differ ence, to my mind." "I don't get letters from him, Fred, either. Indeed " "I don't care who you get letters from, so don't make a scene!" Fred exclaimed, in a momentary dread of his sister's entrance, and getting a hint of tears in Fay's sweet, soared voice. "But you can't deny that let ter which I gave you this afternoon was from Ramsay," he added, in a low tone, but with angry emphasis. "No, but you know, Fred I would not tell you a story for the world." "I don't know anything of the sort. I think this looks exceedingly like it. You say the letter I gave you was from Ramsay, and in the same breath you say it wasn't. Humph!" Fay Dennard was a timid, sensitive little creature, but a prouder woman never (looked Into a man's eyes loving ly. She got up from her chair, white and trembling. "I can't explain the matter to you at present, at any rate," she said, in a cold voice, "so it will have to remain a myetery, I am sorry to say." And then 6he went out of the room as stately as a grander-looking woman might, and Fred sat and poked the fire, and kicked the fender, and doubt less would not have minded If the lat ter had been Ramsay. Staring moodily from his office win dow, the following day, he saw Ned Ramsay's elegant turn-out come flying by, and amid the whirl and swiftness caught the glimpse of Fay's blue car riage cloak and floating snowy plumes. It was as much as he could do to be lieve his eyes. "Out riding with him now!" he mut tered;, with a choking sensation In his throat. "I suppose she'll deny that, too." Home at three. Fay had not come, and he would not ask where she was, though Lue sat smilingly waiting to be questioned. THAT WINS. 1. Four, five, six o'clock, and still no Mrs. Dennard. Mr. Fred was In a state bordering on distraction. Dinner was served at the usual time, but the wretched husband could have swallowed pebbles as easily as a mor sel of dinner. His sister ate with a relish, and with her usual cheerfulness chattered away, calling upon Fred for responses to "Did you know," and "Do you know," etc., till he felt like fling ing a dessert plate at her head. In the parlor after dinner, Lue at the piano, Fred pretending to read, and getting paler and paler with every effort. "You look ill, Fred," Lue remarked sweetly, from her perch on the piano stool. "Well, I'm not," tartly. About eight o'clock the doorbell rang. Fred Jumped as though some one had shot him. The servant showed In Ned Ramsay. Tall, black-haired. Jetty-whiskered, Just the splendid looking fellow Lus Dennard had called him, he came In, his handsome face wreathed in smiles. Fred's faoe turned to the hue of ashes. Involuntarily his hands cllnoh ed themselves, and, as Ramsay said a rather puzzled "good-evening," ha looked at hlm like a madman, abouS to spring. "If you please, Mr. Ramsay," said Lue's voice in his ear, and her hnnd gently guided him from the parlor Into the library, where, excusing herself she left him and went back an instant to Fred. "I meant to have made you own up to being jealous In so many words," the saucy girl said, stopping before him, and crossing her hands behind her In the most tantalizing manner, "but you're too obstinate, though you will hardly be able to deny the fact to me now." Fred stared at her. "No," he said, savagely, "I won't deny It I should like to crush that fellow's handsome mug with my boot heel." "Which laudable desire will have to remain unfulfilled for the present," laughed Lue. "Where do you suppose your wife is?" "Deuced If I know or care. The last I saw of her Bhe was riding down Broadway with Ramsay." "She was not doing anything of the kind. You saw me with Fay's hat and cloak on. Fay went to see Nurse Bag shaw early In the day. She's not ex pected to live, you know, from one day to another." "Lue, you're an angel!" Fred cried, in a rapture. "You mean to say that Fay is, and so she Is, to endure nil Bhe had to from you the past week." "But Ramsay's been writing to her." "Not he. He wrote to me under cov er of her name, Just to bother that old maid aunt of his. She's always poking her nose Into other people's business." "And his call " "Was for me. Naturally I saw him go down our steps that night, for he came home witih me from Duforge's." "Lue, you are an angel! I wish Ramsay Joy of you." Lue laughed. "Never say Jealous again, Fred, when I'm around. Hello! where are you going?" "After Fay." "Oh, she's upstairs with a headache. Come In an hour and a half ago. I told her you were very much engaged reading, and she said she wouldn't In terrupt you." "Hump! you're a baggage, Lue. I'll pay you for this. If I live!" and Fred vanished to make his peace with Fay, which was not a difficult matter. Lov. Ing, little daisy-faced women like Fay Dennard are not very implacable." New York Weekly. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The water front of Brooklyn Is 33 miles in length. Rockway Beach is about 20 miles from Manhattan. There are about 26,800 worms to an acre of cultivated land. Lavender and rose perfumes are said to be fatal to microbes. It is estimated that the earth now has a population of 1,520,150,000. Peanut cake seems to he supplant ing cottonseed cake as the preferred food for Swedish cattle. Washington Is fast becoming the city of beautiful homes of the coun try. Its growth Is marvelous. There are 99 breweries In New York; They annually have an output of beer valued at $40,105,837. The Carnegie Steel company pays about one-seventh of the entire taxes collected by the city of Youngstown, Ohio. In 75 years the American Bible so ciety has distributed 54,233,712 copies of the Holy Scripture in all parts of the world. More than 1000 killed and nearly 22,000 Injured Is the record of the American railroads for the closing quarter of 1909. Bellevue hospital has an operating room that Is considered among the best in the world, vth a sealing ca pacity for 1000 students. The pickpockets are said to have made at least a half a million dollars out of the great crowd that attended the funeral of King Edward. The building occupied by the assay office Is the oldest in Wall street, hav ing been erected In 1823 for the Branch Bank of the United States. The Rev. Angus Bethune, vicar of Seabam, England, who has died at the age of 97, discharged his clerical duties to the last. He was 67 years a clergyman In the diocese of Dur ham. "Affection for children Is an Indian characteristic," , says Dr. Charles S. Moody of Idaho. "I have never seen an Indian mother or father punish a child, nor have I ever seen an Indian child cry." That tips are wages has been de cided by the appeals court of England. The case came before It In a claim made under the workmen's compen sation act, In behalf of a waiter who was accidentally killed )u a dining car. r Seemingly New York Is not such a night-hawking city as has been Inti mated. The "day and night- bank" started there some time ago, has de cided to discontinue business , after midnight, as It does not pay to' keep open after that time. PEARL3 OF THOUGHT. Nerves are as often as not think ing you have them. A splendid thing to reform would be reform movements. It a man can't Invent anything else he always can deviltry. ; Comfort makes a man a lot mors satisfied with himself than principles do. Having tact is being a caressing band touch instead of the militant hind leg of a mule. A girl can Imagine romance that is more real to her than steak and fried potatoes are to a man. The exasperating thing about mon ey is even if you don't spend it your self somebody else will for you. A woman will always Intrust her daughter's happiness to a man who shows devotion to both of them. A girl can be Interested in most anything a man wants to talk to her about till she Is married to him. No matter how much a girl loves a man she likes him to think how near she came to marrying a lot of other fellows. . The more a man's faith In a thing turns out not to have been misplaced the surer it is that it wasn't an In vestment. A woman's Idea of an artistic pho tograph is when It shows her very young and GO times as good looking as she is. If a man had ten times as much to do as he has his biggest grievance would be that be hadn't eiiough time to be bad. Just as soon as you begin to give anybody charity he begins to think you owe it to him right along and a lot more besides. A woman always tells her friends how much more her new clothes cost than they did so as to strike a fair average with how much less she tells her hUBband they did. From Reflec tions of a Bachelor In the New York Pres MATRIMONIAL BELT LINE. Oddities of a Little Railroad on the Tennessee-Virginia Border. Charles H. Warner, the sugar re finer of New York, and Colin H. Liv ingston of Washington are part own ers of a street railway system wnlch in one respect has no rival. In fact Benjamin F. Dulansy, a coal orra tor who owns Black Mountain, Vir ginia which aslde.frotn its mineral pos sibilities has achieved fame by being selected by John Fox, Jr., as the scene of two of his novels, asserts that the railway Is the most remark able in the world. Bristol, Tenn., Is where the road Is situated, and some people out mere call it the Matrimonial Belt Lino. For a mile and a quarter the track strad dles the Virginia Slate line, so that a man may be riding In two Slates at once. Parson Burroughs, a clergyman, owns a hotel and meets every car, nn6 neighbors say that if two strangers of opposite sexes arrive together the par son promptly asks them if they wish to get married. Frequently they do, so the parson gets Into the car with them and conducts them to his hotel, though not Infrequently the ceremony takes place In the open, the bride standing In one State and the bride groom In the other, while the officiat ing clergyman straddles the line. Par son Burroughs admits having joined more than 3,000 couples In wedlock. You can drink on the Virginia Bide of the line, but not In Tennessee, and It often happens that one side of a street car Is parching with thirst, while the other is very wet indeed. New York Sun. When Wrecking Was Good. Natives or tho Scilly Isles, where the Minnehaha struck and sank re cently, had In the old days a reputa tion for being inveterate "wreckers." The wrecking sometimes took on a strange form. 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